President Obama announced he is going to use an executive order to advance research on stem cell research. When President Bush was in office he imposed strict limits on embryonic stem cell research. Obama says he is making his decision based on scientific facts and not ideology. President Obama is hoping that Congress will follow with a bipartisan legislation that would ease the existing legislations even more. Although President Obama is in favor of stem cell research, he is against human cloning and that is where he draws the line. In the article he says, “his administration will never open the door to cloning for human reproduction, it is dangerous, profoundly wrong and has no place in our society.”
I believe President Obama made the wrong decision by making an executive order to support stem cell research. Although he supports stem cell research I am glad to hear him say that he is completely against cloning humans. I do not support stem cell research because I believe it is unethical and it devalues human life. I believe that the embryo is already a human life and it deserves to be protected and not used for science. There is a fine line between stem cell research and cloning humans. I believe that once scientist can successfully use stem cell research to cure diseases that they wouldn’t stop there and would want to see if they could start cloning people. Also, I think scientist and researchers would never be satisfied with the amount of leftover embryos they could get to use and they would always want more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/us/politics/10stem.html?scp=3&sq=stem%20cell%20research&st=Search
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